Tabletop Reviews

Every other Monday, for the last couple of years, myself and my family go along to a local board game café and play through something new. There's been a lot of favourites over the years, but it often comes back to the drawing games, with…

Bucolic green fields and sweeping manorial lands fill the ever-shrinking lands of The Dramark: The setting of Our Brilliant Ruin, an assimilation of the Edwardian (Belle Époque) High Society of Western Europe with a dark, cosmic horror. …

Get ready to roll and write in this grab and go battle criss crossing the biggest board game realms from Stonemaier games. Dry wipe markers at the ready!

I am a big fan of Taskmaster, the TV show. I’ve actually seen every episode out and often rewatch them in the evenings when I want to watch something that’s always funny and surprising. Taskmaster: The Board Game tries to take the concept…

We’ve played a few of these sort of charades styled games by now — the ones where players have a deck of cards and need to get their partner to guess the word or phrase on the card without you saying the word or phrase. Pass the Biscuit is…

Let's Go! To Japan is a brand new game from designer Josh Wood and publisher Alderac Entertainment Group, and offers one to four players the opportunity to plan their dream holiday in one of the most unique countries in the world. With…

There's little more thrilling than taking a risky move and having it pay off in a big way. Good Face Bad Face is built entirely around that concept, with players literally stacking the deck in their own favour while also trying to secure a…

If you’ve got family coming around for Christmas this year, then you are likely looking for a good board game to play with them. The idea of playing a board game together, after you’ve all finished dinner, is simply traditional! The Very…

Recall and reflexes come together in Polar Panic an easy to play game that's perfect for all ages, however does need a fair bit of space. If you're looking for a meal in the frosty arctics of the utmost Northern Hemisphere then you'll need…

Deception and Recall aren't often mixed together in games, but it's the crux of That's Not a Hat which is both quick to learn and, coincidentally, incredibly easy to recall the rules of. That's Not a Hat is such a memorable, clever game…

I have very fond memories of Worms – especially the 1995 PlayStation One release which captivated me and my friends over many an evening, in particular because one of us suffered for six weeks with a broken leg. No Worms game has ever felt…

Politics are often quite strange with their long rambling speeches on policies that don’t make any real sense. In Vote Me, it takes this concept of weird speeches and challenges you and your friends to make random speeches on funny topics.…

Ravensburger are known for a lot of things, but mostly puzzles and board games. As such, it was a real surprise when they managed to not only land the Disney license for a card game, but actually deliver an easy-to-access and fun to play…

Calling all fellow philatelists it’s time for the Stamp Swap show. Converge on this collection convention to see who will be named the curation king (or queen) following three fast paced rounds of drafting and swapping. Watch out for those…

For readers of a certain age, Survive: Escape from Atlantis will be a core memory. With its modular island made up of bright, plastic hexagons, this 1980’s classic is a game that I remember well. In keeping with the current fashion,…

Race against your rivals to serve up a cat's supper in The Cat Mitt Game. Gimmick games come in all shapes and sizes, but I don't think a board game has ever, ever required me to don oven-mitts and try to agitate pieces out of a ball...…

I’ve heard a lot about Deep Rock Galactic, and we’ve certainly covered it here at B3 — but I’d never played it myself. Dwarves, beer, mining etc — I felt I’d seen and done it all before. But on the tabletop things hit differently. Creating…

We’ve played a large number of trivia games during our time covering tabletop games. However, Twisted History has trivia questions I’ve never been asked or wondered the answer to — and that’s its point!  Split between six eras of history,…

Go for Gold is a fast paced game of plucking matches out from under the nose of your opponents, an Olympic game of speed and dexterity, if you will. When it comes to games with card or tile-based pieces is there anything more pure than the…

Originally released in 2018, The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls has recently been revitalised via a significant expansion known as The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls: Requiem, and a whole host of smaller booster packs that add between 10 and 15…